Satellite Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration Engineer

• Monitor the medium-term to long-term performance of Level 1 products
• Improvement of Level 1 algorithms and the development of new ones
• Support the procurement of space segment simulators and processors
• Contribute to INRC developments, in particular the preparation of the PIQMICS/MICMICS Monitoring Systems, MTG INR Reference Processor, and Commissioning support
• Contribute to the CO2M mission development
• Product Quality monitoring of the operational Level 1 products (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B, and EPS AVHRR L1B products)
• Algorithm maintenance of the operational Level 1 Processors (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, and EPS AVHRR L1B Product Processing Facility)
• Contribute to the procurement of the Data Processing packages for MTG-S mission (PDG-S, IQT-S, SCCDB-S) and to the processes and operational documentation for usage of these tools

• University degree in remote sensing or a related subject
• Understanding of optical remote sensing techniques from space
• A thorough understanding of the interaction between instrument/platform characteristics and processing impact, including product quality
• Remote sensing methodologies and techniques, including calibration and Level 1 processing
• Development of Level 1 data processing systems for large (multi-instrument) operational space programmes
• Validation of Level 1 data processing systems
• Standards for data formats, in particular NetCDF-4 or HDF-5
• Software engineering, requirements specification, design, testing and integration, ideally to ECSS/ISO standards
• Software development in C/C++, Python, under UNIX/Linux, build environments, e.g. make, automake, autoconf, RPM
• Fluency in English is mandatory

Knowledge of another European language is an advantage